I read the book when I was young, and the only thing I remember about it was how much I cried. I cried and cried and cried. I've been suspicious of the book ever since; I normally reread books again and again but I never picked that one up again.

My mom recently told me that it was my favoritest book ever when I was a kid, but I have no memory of it.

So, I guess I'm with you, occhiblu, except that I totally repressed the experience.

Also, we pronounced it "TerabiTHIa", but I don't know if that was just Texas talk or what.

I had never read this book or even heard about it, so it was all new to me.
I think a lot of people might be mad after taking their kids to a movie in which *certain things like this* happen, but I thought it was pretty great, and real, and sad, but ultimately positive.

It helps that I completely related to the plight of schoolkids, being called "loser" and the horror of the busride home. They captured that pretty well.

Plus, I'm apparently going through some kind of early male menopause.

Ha Ha! You cry at movies!

/cries at Rocky
//and Rocky II

Ya, Rocky was good for that, for sure.
I think Gilbert Grape also got me.
And anything with kids in it. Life is Beautiful got me.

I always cry at the end of Harvey, usually somewhere around "I like you too." I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Ya, Rocky was good for that, for sure.

I've seen it close to twenty times, but at the end when he calls out for Adrian...gets me every time.

I'll also admit to getting a little misty at Rudy.

Stop staring! Guys are allowed to cry at sports movies.

I was going to say it was the "Adrian" part.
(I thought it was sort of a given.)
It's the swelling music. Cheap trick. not the band

The music gets me pumped but that movie would be great even without it. It's one of my 'dealbreaker' pieces of cinema; if you don't like it, you have no soul.

I regularly cry at movies. And I sometimes get teary at commercials. I think it's healthy, in a sick twisted way. I don't remember the last movie I really sobbed at, but I do remember crying at the end of Titanic - the part where the passengers are hanging on and that one dude is praying... I was bawling up until Leo DeCaprio bit it so cheesily - that brightened me right up.

Yes, with the Titanic. Had no effect on me.
It doesn't get to me if I know I'm being manipulated by music or that it's a part that you're "supposed to cry" at. But if it's sort of real, like today in this movie it was a 12 or 13 year old kid and he just did a really good job of letting loose with crying after a whole movie of holding stuff in, it just worked on me.
Or if I'm watching a movie with my kids that's from when I was a kid, one that I really loved, and I look over at them to see how their faces are showing their reactions (which I always do), then that gets me, too, if I see that they're really getting into the parts that I do.

Also at weddings.

I cry at movies all the time (last time? Pan's Labyrinth) but rarely in real life. It probably means I'm a sociopath or something, I dunno.

Bridge to Terabithia was my favourite book as a kid as well, and I keep meaning to buy it again, but have never gotten around to it.

I've heard that Bridge to Terabithia was a tear-jerker.

I cry at movies all the time (last time? Pan's Labyrinth) but rarely in real life. It probably means I'm a sociopath or something, I dunno.

Me too.

I remember watching Ghost with Demi Moore at the theater with a bunch of friends and everyone was crying except for me. I wanted to laugh. I saw Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner with a couple of friends when it came out in the theaters. They were both boo-hooing. OMG, horrible movie.

I cry at Rocky. Terms of Endearment, of course. The first time I saw Beaches I was crying like a lunatic. I cry over not so sad documentaries like Spellbound and American Dream.

See, there you go. Terms of Endearment, not so much that she's dying of cancer, but the older son, the bad son, when he loses it I'm done. And Spellbound too. I told you, anything with kids. But real-ish kids. Not fake kids crying with John Williams music swelling up.

I cry at everything. I cried reading an article online today. I cry at South Park episodes. I cry in real life though too, so I figure I'm just leaky in general and don't let it bother me much.